Research tools

The research tools to the right are freely available. If they are used for publications, all I ask is that they are appropriately credited.

The hsDEA framework is based on this paper, published in The Bulletin of the WHO. It provides a simple multi-attribute decision-making paradigm for health policy. Traditional health-policy analytic measures, such as cost-effectiveness analysis, only incorporate health outcomes and costs. This tool allows the inclusion of other outcomes—such as financial risk, equity, private expenditure, and others—to be included in policy rankings.

The second tool calculates the population-level risk of financial catastrophe due to medical costs. It is based on this paper, published in the British Journal of Surgery.

The World Bank has included financial outcomes for surgery into the World Development Indicators. The data behind these indicators are available in the third tool.